Pioneer BDR-S06 XLB (BDR-206 DBK)

Review Pages

1. Features
2. CD,DVD and Blu-ray disc reading tests
3. Reading scratched CDs
4. Reading scratched DVDs
5. How we test
6. CD-R burning - Ritek 40X
7. CD-R burning - TDK 40X
8. CD-RW burning - Verbatim 24X
9. DVD-R SL burning - Moser Bear India 16X
10. DVD-R SL burning - Verbatim 16X
11. DVD-R SL burning - Ritek 16X
12. DVD-R SL burning - DataWrite (TTH02) 16X
13. DVD-R SL burning - Taiyo Yuden 16X
14. DVD+R SL burning - Philips (INFOMER30) 16X
15. DVD+R SL burning - Moser Bear India 16X
16. DVD+R SL burning - Verbatim 16X
17. DVD+R SL burning - Rrodisc R04 16X
18. DVD-R DL burning - Verbatim 8X
19. DVD+R DL burning - Verbatim 8X
20. DVD-RW burning - Verbatim 6X
21. DVD+RW burning - Verbatim 8X
22. DVD-RAM burning - Maxell 5X
23. BD-R SL burning - Verbatim BD-R SL 6x LTH
24. BD-R SL burning - Panasonic BD-R SL for 6X
25. BD-R SL burning - Sony BD-R for 6X
26. BD-R SL burning - Verbatim BD-R for 6x
27. BD-R SL burning - TDK BD-R for 4X
28. BD-R SL burning - Moser Baer India for 6x
29. BD-R DL burning - Panasonic certified for 6X
30. BD-R DL burning - Panasonic BD-R DL for 4X
31. BD-R DL burning - TDK for 4X
32. BD-R DL burning - Verbatim BD-R DL for 6X
33. BD-RE SL burning - Moser Baer India for 2X
34. BD-RE DL burning - Sony (Panasonic) BD-RE DL for 2X
35. BD-RE Dl burning - TDK for 2X
36. Summary of CD, DVD and Blu-ray quality tests
37. Pioneer PureRead tests
38. Final words

- Disc Info

- Burn @ 5X

- Read

The Pioneer BDR-S06 XLB burner had not any reading/writing problems with both the Maxell DVD-RAM disc of this test.

DVD-RAM is a rewritable format supported by the DVD Forum. A DVD-RAM can be seen as a removable hard drive. However, as any other hard drive the DVD-RAM must be "prepared" (formatted) before the first use. A DVD-RAM disc must be formatted using the UDF (Universal Disk Format). Usually, a 4.7GB DVD-RAM should be formatted using the UDF 1.5 or the UDF 2.0 format.

Notice that in the above tests we showcase the maximum recording speeds supported by the drive with the specific DVD-RAM media. In case you are using your DVD-RAM discs as a removable hard drive through your Windows OS, you may experience slower burning. That because the DVD-RAM format features an automatic verification technology that results to safer but slower recordings.